562 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Ficus. 
places, where the soil is moist and rich, common about Cal- 
cutta, ‘ 
Trunk erect, seldom as thick as a man’s body. Branches 
opposite, sub-erect. Bark scabrous, ash-coloured. Young 
shoots scabrous, and covered with much short white hair, 
piped, and interrupted at the insertion of the leaves, as in the 
Bamboo. Leaves opposite, short, round, petioled, oblong, 
slightly serrate, of a firm, scabrous texture, shining above, 
downy below, and most beautifully reticulate, one of each | 
pair is always considerably smaller than the other ; they are 
from five to nine inches long. Fruit on the young shoots 
axillary and peduncled, in the naked woody branches racem- 
ed, round, about the size of a large nutmeg, covered with 
much short, white hair, several equi-distant ridges running 
from the umbilicus to the base. Racemes, and bractes as in 
F. glomerata, only here simple. Calyx of the fruit three-- 
leaved, Flowers,a few round the inside of the mouth of the 
navel, Filament or peduneles single, with a proper, three- 
parted perianth surrounding the middle. Female flowers nu- 
merous. Peduncles long. Perianth none. Style and stigma 
placed together on the side of the germ, funnel-formed. 
This species is productive of much tenaceous milky juice 
ou being wounded, The fruit is not often eaten, nor is the 
tree used for any purpose that I know of. 
55. F. demona. Kon, Mss, Vahl. En, Pl. ii. 198. 
Shrubby. Leaves generally opposite, cuneate, oblong, 
and oblong-pointed, serrate, above scabrous, downy under- — 
neath, with a green gland in the axills of the veins. Fruit 
in pairs on long radical racemes, above very hairy, of the size 
_ of a nutmeg. 
A native of the sandy lands near the sea on the coast of the 
Tanjore Country. From thence Dr, Rottler sent plants to 
this garden where they produce fruit, all the year round. In 
its native barren soil it grows to be a stout ramous siete 
small tree. a 
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